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Wooden Church in Hervartov  
   

Wooden Church in Hervartov

This wooden church is one of the few Roman Catholic wooden churches that exists. It is also the oldest surviving wooden church in Slovakia and one of the oldest in the world. It was built in the the middle of the 1400s.
The Wooden Churches of Slovakia

August 21st 2009
After finishing my class in Poland, I headed back to Slovakia. Sylvia and her family came to Lublin to pick me up. After one day back in Roznava, Sylvia and I headed to Presov, Slovakia so I could attend a research conference on religious geography in Europe. The conference went well and on the third day, we had a small group tour of some of the most important religious architecture in Northea ... read more
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Slovak Flag In 1918 the Slovaks joined the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once... ... read more
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